Walking Wednesdays at Rouge Valley: Stepping Into Nature: Teacher Stories

Monday, October 28, 2013

Stepping Into Nature: Teacher Stories

Our Walking Wednesday Program at Rouge Valley was recently featured in an article on Outdoor Education. The article was written by our very own, Mr. Daffern and published in an online journal titled: "Stepping into Nature: Teacher Stories Volume 1".

A copy of Mr. Daffern's article can be read here:

"Walking Wednesdays at Rouge Valley" by Mr. Daffern

The journal can be downloaded here:

http://www.back2nature.ca/stepping-into-nature-teacher-stories

What are we doing?

Each week students walk through their local community to a meadow on the edge of the Rouge River Valley. These “place based” environment activities are integrated with curriculum areas and meet the Ministry’s environmental policy found in Acting Today, Shaping Tomorrow.

Our philosophy is to engage students through experiential learning and to cover as wide a range of curriculum as possible. Using Walking Wednesdays as a jumping off point, we have covered Ministry curriculum expectations in Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Language and the Arts.